The new Reporters without Borders’ campaign reminds me of this International Society for Human Rights campaign (same ad agency?), but their appeal is clear. And so is their message. More here. About these ads
The news about Zimbabwe
October 14, 2011 By 10 Comments
Guest post by Mikko Kapanen Land reform and Zimbabwe; say those words in any order and you get a reaction. It obviously was a failed and atrocious attempt of a corrupt leader who bribes people to vote for him and then still lies about the result just to be popular amongst his people. Obviously. Well, […]
New Documentaries
June 9, 2011 By 3 Comments
Some of the films in The Encounters Documentary Film Festival which kicks off its 13th year in Cape Town and Johannesburg today (till June 26), that I hope make it over here sometime: “When China Met Africa“ “Forerunners“ “Glitterboys and Ganglands“: “King Naki“ And finally, “Robert Mugabe: What Happened?“
Buy Zimbabwe on eBay
May 17, 2011 By 4 Comments
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Actually old Zimbabwe dollars. It’s a fad and collectors are paying thousands of US dollars for it. The Wall Street Journal.
‘It’s voom-VURE-ay’
May 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A week or so ago, on May Day, the sport section of The New York Times featured a short profile of a sports development program from Zimbabwe that has successfully placed “about 150 athletes in American universities in sports like track, tennis, soccer and field hockey” in US colleges. The program was founded by a former […]
In Zimbabwe, Mugabe monitors Facebook comments too
April 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
[Ordinary person] Vikas Mavhudzi remains in detention more than a month after his arrest for comments he made about President Robert Mugabe on the Facebook page of opposition leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. He was arrested on 24 February in Bulawayo on allegations of plotting to overthrow Mugabe’s government. His detention is linked to […]
The Elephant in the Room
April 6, 2011 By 3 Comments
Will the “global” furore over GoDaddy CEO’s canned elephant hunt really lead to a boycott of his company? Last week when Bob Parsons, CEO of the Internet domain company boasted of his latest kill, and posted pictures and video of himself posing with a gun and a prone elephant on his Twitter site, outrage ensued. […]
“You no longer need your calculators to go for lunch in Harare”
March 15, 2011 By 3 Comments
As 42 opposition activists were facing treason charges in Zimbabwe for watching video footage of the Egyptian democracy protests, the Financial Times sent Alec Russell, its comment and analysis editor, down to Harare to interview Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister. Tsvangirai’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change is serving together in a Government of National Unity […]
Lupe Fiasco Knows Black Presidents
March 11, 2011 By 7 Comments
Update: I’m eating crow on this. Earlier today I posted an excerpt from an interview with the Chicago rapper, Lupe Fiasco, who gained some midlevel fame with his “Kick Push” song. Setting up the post, I noted that Fiasco generally has decent politics (the link is to his close association with the late historian Howard Zinn). In […]
